October 28, 2010 0 Miss USA — For a Day In the early 1940s, at age 13, Leona Gage met a 24 year old pilot in the U.S. Air Force named Gene Ennis. [...]
October 27, 2010 0 The Perfect Crime Scene If you live in the United States, you’re probably familiar with some of the basic rights guaranteed by [...]
October 26, 2010 0 The Buzzing Supercomputer Imagine you are a door-to-door salesman in a town with poor urban planning. Tasked with visiting 25 [...]
October 25, 2010 0 From Sheep to Books The history of the written word, tautologically, extends back to the beginning of non-oral history [...]
October 22, 2010 0 Sea Nomads The boat pictured above is called a lepa-lepa, a 15 foot long, five foot wide watercraft. While the [...]
October 21, 2010 0 The Messenger, Shot On October 3, 1918, a French battalion of 500 soldiers serving in World War I was trapped in a hillside [...]
October 20, 2010 0 London Tube Time Machine Sir Alec Guinness, most famously known (to his chagrin) as Obi-Wan Kenobi in Star Wars, was an accomplished [...]
October 19, 2010 0 Teddy Versus the Pigskin This week, the NFL announced that it may impose stricter penalties for helmet-on-helmet tackling, in an [...]
October 18, 2010 0 Tanks for the Info Europe and the Pacific were the two primary arenas in World War II, but the battle also was one [...]
October 15, 2010 0 Manslaughter in Moriusaq The situation, while uncommon, was not unheard of. A man goes out on a drinking binge and his intoxication [...]